Performance Reviews

“Oftentimes when we're doing a performance review, we think that we want to have a conversation, but we actually don't. We want to say, look, here are some problems with your performance. Here's some stuff that you need to work on, but we're not looking for the…”

“We don't have performance reviews.”

“So this question is what feedback will I be giving this person in their first performance review? And it's an amazing question because the person can't dodge it. You know, there's an answer and it's incredibly enlightening.”

“But I think, you know, offloading that from the person who's most familiar with it is you know, probably going to create more problems in its work.”

“Just go in and just jump to Harry. We got to talk about this Because you're not going to be successful here unless you can nail these three things. I start with the hard stuff because everybody dreads it on both sides. That's my recommendation to you. Like, do…”

“I just haven't had good success with like reviews that felt more useful than harmful.”

“One of the common mistakes that people make in mentoring women and people of color oftentimes is that in their organization will during a performance review go easier or not. They're like, well, this person's really experienced a lot of pain in their life. The…”

“So you have to be explicit in watching the outcomes of attaching a bad outcome to culture, and that's where the real learning happens. It's not just giving them the statement, and it's definitely not waiting for a year-end performance review. And saying, oh, b…”

“If you create feedback rich environments, like we're talking about here, you can let go of most formal feedback tools. You don't need to do a semi-annual or annual feedback things, which, you know, still gets rated as one of the things most people hate the mos…”